U.S. Official Cites Need for International Coalition on ORS

WASHINGTON —

With Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) starting to gain acceptance

in the United States, U.S. Air Force Col. Tom Doyne foresees expansion of the concept internationally to provide what he calls

coalition ORS,

where NATO members, for example, would be able to share data from ORS satellites. Doyne, who works for the Rapid Reaction Technology Office

in the Director of Defense Research and Engineering

, says those satellites could also then be wholly or partially built by a NATO country.